A mediated model of the effects of human resource management policies and practices on the intention to promote women : An investigation of the theory of planned behaviour
- Authors: Biswas, Kumar , Boyle, Brendan , Mitchell, Rebecca , Casimir, Gian
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Human Resource Management Vol. 28, no. 9 (2017), p. 1309-1331
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- Description: This study investigates the role of supportive human resource management policies and practices in senior HR managers’ intention to promote women to senior management positions. Based on the theory of planned behaviour, we argue a model in which supportive HR policies and practices affect managers’ attitudes towards the promotion of women to senior positions and their perception of organisational norms and control over the decision. We employ partial least squares based structural equation modelling to investigate data from a sample of 183 firms in Bangladesh. Our results support the utility of the theory of planned behaviour in understanding the positive effects of HR practices on the intent of senior managers to promote women. Our findings suggest that the role of HR policies and practices is not only to eliminate opportunity for discrimination but also to encourage the development of deeper attitudinal and normative acceptance of women’s role in senior management. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Databases for road traffic injury surveillance in New South Wales
- Authors: Hayen, Andrew , Du, Wei , Hatfield, Julie , Mitchell, Rebecca , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of The Australasian College of Road Safety Vol. February, no. (2010), p. 56-63
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
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- Description: Road traffic injuries are a significant public health problem around the world. Efforts to prevent road traffic injuries are likely to benefit from the collection of consistent and comparable injury information. This study evaluated data item availability across different road traffic injury surveillance data collections in New South Wales in relation to the World Health Organization's recommended core minimum, optimal and supplementary data sets that outline the necessary data items for injury surveillance. The data collections reviewed are suitable for road traffic injury surveillance in different contexts. However, none of the data collections examined sufficiently categorized two common data items required in road safety research: occupant protection devices and injury outcomes. Further improvement of current routine road traffic crash data collections is warranted to build the required data infrastructure to overcome challenges for etiologically based analyses
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Effective interprofessional collaboration in rural contexts : A research protocol
- Authors: Mitchell, Rebecca , Paliadelis, Penny , McNeil, Karen , Parker, Vicki , Giles, Michelle , Higgins, Isabel , Parmenter, Glenda , Ahrens, Yvonne
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol. 69, no. 10 (2013), p. 2317-2326
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- Description: Abstract AIM: To describe the research protocol that will be used to investigate factors contributing to effective interprofessional practice in a rural context in Australia. BACKGROUND: Interprofessional practice is a key strategy for overcoming rural health challenges; however, our knowledge of interprofessional initiatives and consequences in rural areas is limited. DESIGN: A modified realistic evaluation approach will be used to explore the structures, systems, and social processes contributing to effective interprofessional outcomes. This 'context-mechanism-outcome' approach provides a useful framework for identifying why and how interprofessional practice works in rural contexts. METHOD: Initial propositions regarding the factors that explain effective collaborative practice will be generated through interviews with lead clinicians, policy-makers, and clinician managers. Clinician interviews, document analysis, and multi-participant focus groups will be used as evidence to support, refine, or redevelop the initial propositions. This will allow the development of a model of rural interprofessional practice that will explain how and why collaborative approaches work in rural environments. This study is funded by an Institute of Rural Clinical Services and Teaching grant (January 2010). DISCUSSION: Rural healthcare challenges are well documented; however, studies investigating the nature of interprofessional practice in rural contexts are not common. Rural contexts also present research design, particularly data collection, challenges. This proposed research is one of the first to identify the factors that facilitate or constrain effective interprofessional work in rural settings. This is particularly important, given the continuing workforce shortages and maldistribution and poorer health outcomes in rural communities globally.
Examination of triage nurse text narratives to identify sports injury cases in emergency department presentations
- Authors: Mitchell, Rebecca , Finch, Caroline , Boufous, Soufiane , Browne, Gary
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion Vol. 16, no. 3 (2009), p. 153-157
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
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- Description: Narrative text can be a useful means of identifying injury in routine data collections. An analysis of data from a near real-time emergency department surveillance system (NREDSS) in New South Wales (NSW, Australia) was conducted to determine if sports injuries can be identified from routine narrative text recorded in emergency departments. Around one-third of all emergency department (ED) presentations during 1 September 2003 to 15 February 2007 were identified as injury-related. Narrative text searching of triage nursing assessments using keywords identified between 282 (i.e. football) and 26,944 (i.e. play) potential sports injury presentations depending on the selected sports-related keyword used. Routine narrative text descriptions from triage nurse assessments show promise for the identification of sports injury presentations to EDs. Further work is required regarding in-depth assessment of case detection capabilities and the likelihood of improving the quality of narrative text recorded. © 2009 Taylor & Francis.
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How health professionals conceive and construct interprofessional practice in rural settings : A qualitative study
- Authors: Parker, Vicki , McNeil, Karen , Higgins, Isabel , Mitchell, Rebecca , Paliadelis, Penny , Giles, Michelle , Parmenter, Glenda
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: BMC Health Services Research Vol. 13, no. 500 (2013), p.1-11
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- Description: Background Although interprofessional practice (IPP) offers the potential to enhance rural health services and provide support to rural clinicians, IPP may itself be problematic due to workforce limitations and service fragmentation. Differing socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of rural communities means that the way that IPP occurs in rural contexts will necessarily differ from that occurring in metropolitan contexts. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors contributing to effective IPP in rural contexts, to examine how IPP happens and to identify barriers and enablers. Methods Using Realistic Evaluation as a framework, semi-structured interviews were conducted with health professionals in a range of rural healthcare contexts in NSW, Australia. Independent thematic analysis was undertaken by individual research team members, which was then integrated through consensus to achieve a qualitative description of rural IPP practice. Results There was clear evidence of diversity and complexity associated with IPP in the rural settings that was supported by descriptions of collaborative integrated practice. There were instances where IPP doesn’t and could happen. There were a number of characteristics identified that significantly impacted on IPP including the presence of a shared philosophical position and valuing of IPP and recognition of the benefits, funding to support IPP, pivotal roles, proximity and workforce resources. Conclusions The nature of IPP in rural contexts is diverse and determined by a number of critical factors. This study goes some of the way towards unravelling the complexity of IPP in rural contexts, highlighting the strong motivating factors that drive IPP. However, it has also identified significant structural and relational barriers related to workload, workforce, entrenched hierarchies and ways of working and service fragmentation. Further research is required to explicate the mechanisms that drive successful IPP across a range of diverse rural contexts in order to inform the implementation of robust flexible strategies that will support sustainable models of rural IPP.
International experience, attitudes toward women and the adoption of supportive HR practices
- Authors: Biswas, Kumar , Boyle, Brendan , Mitchell, Rebecca
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources Vol. 58, no. 1 (Jan 2020), p. 66-84
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- Description: Underpinned by upper echelons theory, this study examines a mediated model to understand the link between human resource (HR) managers' international experience and the adoption of supportive HR practices, and whether their attitudes towards women as managers and anticipated affective reactions mediate this link. Structural equation modelling based on a sample of 183 organisations in Bangladesh reveals that HR managers' international experience has both direct and indirect effects on theadoption of supportive HR practices. Our findings indicate that the extent to which supportive HR practices are implemented in the organisation is contingent upon the cognitive and affective evaluation of managers' attitudes towards the initiative of a gender-balanced top management team. Therefore, our study offers novel contributions to our understanding of how HR mangers' attitudes shape the adoption of supportive HR practices in organisations.
Negotiating Intersections: Inter-Professional Practice in Rural Health Care Contexts
- Authors: Parker, Vicki , Mitchell, Rebecca , McNeil, Karen , Ahrens, Yvonne , Higgins, Isabel , Parmenter, Glenda , Paliadelis, Penny , Giles, Michelle
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: International Journal of Qualitative Methods Vol. 11, p. 750-751
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- Description: Health care in most contexts depends on teams of professionals with diverse skills working together synergistically to achieve optimal outcomes for patients and their families. The way is which interprofessional practice occurs in rural healthcare varies from that which occurs in metropolitan areas. This variation reflects the social, economic and geographic characteristics of rural communities. Further, rural workforce challenges and lack of access to resources and services are compounded by the difficulties associated with the intersection of speciality driven metropolitan models and the generalist models of care that are a feature of rural health care. This study’s aim was to examine how IPP happens in rural contexts, and to identify barriers, enablers and existing and potential models of IPP. Interviews were conducted with health professionals (nurses, doctors and allied health) in a range of rural healthcare contexts (Hospitals, GP practices, Multi-Purpose Services and Community centres) in NSW, Australia. Interview data were supplemented with document review and review of communication systems. Findings suggest that the nature of IPP in rural contexts is diverse and determined by a number of critical factors including rurality, connection to community, availability of staff, funding programs and specific interests and skills of staff. Rural IPP is characterised by a small numbers of professionals across few professions, focus on generalist practice and informal communication systems. IPP is growing in response to changes in government funding models and policy and through the establishment or strengthening of pivotal co-ordinating roles, with a clear mandate to involve other professionals and patients in decision making.
Trends in hospitalised sport/leisure injuries in New South Wales, Australia-Implications for the targetting of population-focussed preventive sports medicine efforts
- Authors: Finch, Caroline , Mitchell, Rebecca , Boufous, Soufiane
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 14, no. 1 (January 2011), p. 15-21
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
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- Description: Sport/leisure injuries are a population health issue in Australia. Over 2003-2004 to 2007-2008, the rate of sport/leisure injury NSW hospitalisations was 195.5/100,000 residents. Males and children/young people had consistently highest rates of hospitalisation. There was no significant decline in rates over this period and no change in the profiles of the types of sport/leisure injuries. The extent to which effective preventive programs have been developed and implemented needs to be determined as current programs do not seem to be impacting on hospitalisation rates. Medical/health promotion agencies and sports bodies need to jointly formulate and implement policies to reduce sport/leisure injuries. This is one of the most significant challenges facing sports medicine professionals today.